Mozhdeh Shamsai

Mozhdeh Shamsai

Birth : 1968-06-23, Tehran, Iran

History

Mozhdeh Shamsai is an actress who was born in 1968. She started her career in cinema and starred in “Mosaferan” directed by Bahram Beizae in 1991. She has won the Crystal Simorgh of Best Actress for “Killing Mad Dogs” from Fajr Film Festival.

Profile

Mozhdeh Shamsai

Movies

Crossroads
Life is not a good play Approximately year eighty of the Persian calendar. In a busy crossroads of Tehran, a woman and a man run into one another, torn apart by the events of the last fifteen years.
Ayyar-e Tanha
about Bahram Beyzai
When We Are All Asleep
Chakameh who has lost both her husband and child in a car accident meets a guy who recently been released from prison. While she is under pressure from the lawyers to compromise with the arrested driver, the guy told her his story of why getting arrested and then released from prison.
Killing Mad Dogs
Golrokh Kamali
Golrokh, an Iranian author, struggles to settle her husband's debts caused by a business partner who left him to bear the consequences.
Dialogue with the wind
actress
An avant-garde short movie of Bahram Beizai about history of south of Iran and a conversation of a southern boy(Shanbehzade) with a genie called wind(Mozhdeh shamsai)
Travelers
A young woman's wedding becomes a ritual of mourning when her sister and family die in an auto accident on the way to the wedding. The sisters' mother refuses to accept her daughter's death, and in the midst of wedding guests and mourners, including the drivers of the truck that caused the accident, she orders the wedding to take place. But how can the daughter marry in the midst of a wake and without the family's traditional mirror, which the sister was bringing to the service?
Snake's Fang
Makeup Artist
Reza, the veteran worker of a print house whose sight is adversely affected because of his job, loses his mother. Finding the gloom reigning over the home beyond bearing, he departs to overcome his sorrows. He ends up at a hostel where he shares his room with a southern guy called Ahmad who has a group of orphan war-stricken children under his wing. After the initial inkling gives way to the friendship, Reza discovers that Ahmad's patron plies his trade in black-market. At the same time, Reza's sister is constantly beaten and humiliated by her husband for being infertile.
The 29th Night
Production Design
An Iranian girl marries a man who has been loved by a wich- daughter of a jin, who tries to frighten the poor woman by showing herself in evil ways that make the poor woman go unconscious several times and her sister convinces the poor woman's husband to divorce her.